Here's a problem with a species name that is making our database less user-friendly.
Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus carota)
We have a parent plant entry for Daucus carota. Every photo is of Queen Anne's Lace, but anyone searching for Queen Anne's Lace will not find this entry because the common name is "Carrot." We can't add "Queen Anne's Lace" as a common name because the parent plant entry will apply that common name to all of the carrot cultivars.
In the past, carrots and wild carrots were differentiated by means of additional names for subspecies, and Wikipedia still refers to the cultivated vegetable as Daucus carota subsp. sativus. This name is still accepted by GRIN and still exists in our database, but ITIS says it's now merely a synonym of D. carota. Worse yet, both GRIN and ITIS say this information was updated in 2011. Which one should we believe?
Furthermore, the information in the parent plant entry seems to refer only to Queen Anne's Lace. I'm no carrot expert, but I don't think all the cultivars are at least 3 feet tall with showy flowers.
